A team of specialist investigators is also preparing to fly from London to join the inquiry into the death of Woolmer, who was found dead in his hotel room aged 58 hours after Pakistan’s shock defeat by Ireland in the cricket world cup.

The move follows a request from Mark Shields,

deputy commissioner of the Jamaican police and a former Scotland Yard detective.

The police are also expected to question a group of Pakistani bookmakers over the murder allegations and claims of match fixing.

Kwaja Arif Pappu, an influential Pakistani professional gambler who is alleged to have links

to notorious fugitive Indian gangster Dawood Ibrahim, is believed to have travelled to the West Indies with his associates for the

tournament, Indian news sources reported.

Pappu, who is based in Lahore, has strong ties with President Pervez Musharraf ’s administration

despite being dismissed for corruption while working as a government income tax collector.

Ibrahim, who is charged with masterminding the 1993 Mumbai bombings in which 257 people died and who the US believes has ties with al Qaeda, is believed to be in hiding from the Indian

authorities in Pakistan.

The bookmaker’s name was published with Haneef Caddie, Chadhury Khalid and Mian Koko and several others in a special cricket corruption report by the Pakistani authorities in 1999.

Pappu and his associates are known to have been in the Caribbean since the start of the tournament where they are now likely to be interviewed by police.

However Woolmer’s widow, Gill, rejected claims that he had been murdered or been drinking excessively.

She told an Indian TV channel:

“I don’t see any conspiracy in Bob’s death.

“I am aware it is being viewed as that, but he had nothing to do with match fixing.

"He was very tired. All that living out of a suitcase, the time difference and the travelling was tiring."